The phrase 'human pillar' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in its literal sense, referring to a person who acts as a support for another. For example, "My wife has been a human pillar of strength during this difficult time."
Mr. Millepied, who is using the largest number of dancers (24), is having them stay onstage as human pillars who, when not dancing, frame the action.
One goal is shared between the PepsiCo environment and human pillars: "integrating...policies and actions on human health, agriculture and the environment to make sure they support each other".
When Master Chief learns of the devastation that Halo would cause to humanity and all other sentient life if activated, he detonates the human ship Pillar of Autumns engines, destroying the ring and preventing the Flood from escaping.
(Let me add at once that this is how everybody plays these days: Montreal's Flying Frenchmen have become the Flopping Foreigners; the Habs' fine rookie Brendan Gallagher alters the formula only by using his non-size to slip between the huge, shoving human pylons, pillars, and posts).
President Néstor Kirchner has made the defense of human rights a pillar of his administration.
Instead, he sees them as dating from the 1970s, exemplified by President Jimmy Carter's effort to make human rights a pillar of United States foreign policy.
"The March for Science champions robustly funded and publicly communicated science as a pillar of human freedom and prosperity," they write, on their Web site.
The spying clause, part of a new military programming law, comes just weeks after France, which considers individual privacy a pillar of human rights, expressed outrage at revelations that the US National Security Agency NSAA) had been intercepting phone calls in France.
The fear is that now China has put heavy resources into peacekeeping and development, it will quite quickly add a third pillar of human rights to its UN portfolio.
Using human rights as a pillar of foreign policy inevitably exposes the chasm between the high ideal of American values ("It comports with our principles," Mr. Obama said on Monday) and the hardheaded pragmatism of advancing American business and security interests.
